Serena Zhang's stunning short story "Red," submitted as a vocab assignment.

Mark Yazhari's Xenia Piece . Notice how Mark expresses an arguable and insightful claim at the very beginning of his piece and then proceeds to support this claim with relevant text and focused analysis.

Mark Yazhari's "End of Summer" Think Piece . Take note of Mark's focused and purposeful analyses of the use of imagery and language to create meaning in the poem. His analysis focuses closely on the text and uses specific lines and images to support his notion of how the poem illustrates the Loss-Quest Archetype.